City on a Hill Press Hosts City Council Candidate Forum
City on a Hill Press hosted a forum for city council candidates at the Student Media Center to discuss university expansion, police accountability, housing and other issues affecting UC Santa Cruz students. Here are some of the closing statements of the candidates, when asked why...
UCSC Police Department Host Active Shooter Training
In 2015, there were 372 mass shootings in the U.S., defined by the Department of Homeland Security as a shooting which involves four or more casualties. In response to public interest, UC Santa Cruz’s Police Department (UCSC PD) hosted an active shooter response seminar, which...
UCSC Student in Critical Condition After Being Hit on Highway 1
The Santa Cruz Police Department (SCPD) is seeking public help in locating the driver of a silver 2010-11 Honda CRV that struck and critically injured a 20-year-old UC Santa Cruz student on Highway 1 between River and Mission Streets approximately 2 a.m. Sunday.The student was...
Indigenous Ties
Memories of a snow-covered Pinyon-Juniper forest, the sound of sheep making tracks in the snow and stars lighting up the night sky are some of the vivid experiences Nadia Lucia Peralta, UC Santa Cruz alumna and member of the Santa Cruz Indigenous Solidarity (SCIS) group,...
Goodbye Theory, Hello Practical Activism
The 14th annual Practical Activism Conference inspired people to change the world. Around 400 people gathered on Oct. 22 at UC Santa Cruz to hear Eddy Zheng speak about his experiences with the prison industrial system. Along with student-led workshops and tabling, Terisa Siagatonu preformed...
We Are A Strong, Gentle People
“What does a community do when it is confronted by tragedy? Do we deny its existence?” -Sean Arlt, letter to the editor SC Sentinel Sean Arlt, who was killed by police on Oct. 16, asked these questions to the Santa Cruz community in an August 2015 Santa...
Protesters and Mourners Fill City Hall
About 70 people gathered into the rows of Santa Cruz City Hall on Tuesday night to voice their opinions about the police-involved shooting of Sean Arlt on Oct. 16. Arlt was a Santa Cruz resident, father and poet who had a mental illness. Over 30...
The Evolving Definition of Women
On the lower side of campus, right off Coolidge Drive, three generations of UC Santa Cruz affiliates gathered in the newly renovated Cardiff House to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the UCSC Women’s Center on Oct. 18. Dozens of students, faculty and staff filed into...
4 Questions, 4 Answers from Campus Admin
UC Santa Cruz Chancellor George Blumenthal, Campus Provost/Executive Vice Chancellor Alison Galloway and Interim EVC and Campus Diversity Officer for Faculty Herbie Lee all sat down with Student Media organizations on Wednesday to answer questions regarding the future of the university and representation on campus....